I have been observing and clicking pictures of moss covered walls all through the lovely Dharwad monsoon. Even my 5.15 AM walks with Ginger, my lab in the beautiful rains were forever punctuated with me looking over, bending under, peeping into, peering between, looking through... for these lush velvety patches of emerald green moss and the feathery maiden hair fern, so typical of the Dharwad monsoon!
It's about a month now that winter's set in and the walls, that all these days sported vibrant shades of green, have now gradually slipped into robes of subtle sober shades of brown and ocher, leaving me scanning every inch for a teeny weeny bit of green velvet...
A fortnight back, I was lucky to have spotted this patch of fresh green moss on my morning walk with Ginger. I spied it on the part of a compound wall that was fortunately shaded by a huge rain tree. And the beautiful bonus was the drops of sparkling dew so precariously perched on the wispy fronds of the moss. I jumped with excitement! And Ginger jumped alongside in surprise, wondering what I was up to. The moment he saw me pull out my camera, I'm sure he muttered to himself, "There goes my Ma all over again...!"
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